Compagnie Financiere du Pacifique v Peruvian Guano Company

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtCourt of Appeal
Year1883
Date1883

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    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 9 May 2013
    ...v Revenue Commissioners (Unrep, Supreme Court, 27/3/1996); Compagnie Financiere et Commerciale du Pacificque v Peruvian Guano Company (1882) 11 QBD 55; Sterling-Winthrop Group Ltd v Farbenfabriken Bayer AG [1967] IR 97; Ryanair plc v Aer Rianta cpt [2003] 4 IR 264; Taylor v Clonmel Health......
  • Victoria Hall Management Ltd v Cox
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 11 September 2019
    ...Project are clearly relevant in the sense that that term is used in Compagnie Financiere et Commerciale du Pacifique v. Peruvian Guano (1882) 11 Q.B.D. 55 (“ Peruvian Guano”) as recently discussed and applied the Supreme Court in Tobin v. Minister for Defence [2019] IESC 57 ( “Tobin”). The......
  • Wallace Smith Trust Company Ltd ((in Liquidation)) v Delloitte Haskins & Sells (A Firm) and Another
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 10 July 1996
    ...correct approach: (1) The general principles underlying discovery remain those contained in the judgment of the Court of Appeal in the Peruvian Guano case (supra). I anticipate, however, that these principles and the present practice may have to be re-examined in the near future. The scope ......
  • Ryanair p.l.c. v Aer Rianta c.p.t.
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 2 December 2003
    ... ... -FLYNN V RTE 2000 3 IR 343 COMPAGNIE FINANCIERE V PERUVIAN GUANO CO 1882 11 QB 55 ... in Compagnie Financiere v Peruvian Guano Company [1882] 11 Q.B.D. 55 at 63 (quoted below) ... ...
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4 books & journal articles
  • English fiduciary standards and trust law.
    • United States
    • Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law Vol. 32 No. 3, May 1999
    • 1 May 1999
    ...(98.) See generally Hartigan Nominees Pty Ltd. v. Rydge (1992) 29 N.S.W.L.R. 405. (99.) See Compagnie Financiere v. Peruvian Guano Co., 11 Q.B.D. 55, 63 (C.A. (100.) In Hartigan, 29 N.S.W.L.R. 405, the three Court of Appeal judges' views differed. (101.) See Re Hay's Settlement Trusts, [198......
  • Electronic discovery issues: disclosure requirements in Britain, Canada, and Australia.
    • United States
    • Defense Counsel Journal Vol. 65 No. 2, April 1998
    • 1 April 1998
    ...M. Co., [1996] 2 Lloyd's Rep. 374, at 351, per Colman J. Formulations of the test of relevance vary widely. See Compagnie Financiere, (1882) 11 Q.B.D. 55. It has been held in Canada that relevant information need not "be directly on point, and must be produced if it may tend to prove or dis......
  • DISCOVERING THE RIGHT TO CRIMINAL DISCLOSURE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2013, December 2013
    • 1 December 2013
    ...paras 8–19 above. 69 [2013] 2 SLR 1227. 70 Cap 322, R 5, 2006 Rev Ed. 71 Muhammad bin Kadar v Public Prosecutor [2011] 3 SLR 1205. 72 (1882) 11 QBD 55. 73 Criminal Procedure Code (Cap 68, 2012 Rev Ed) Pt XX, Div 5. 74 It should be noted that the High Court has recently moved to a modified d......
  • Construction litigation: are we doing it better?
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 35 No. 3, December 2011
    • 1 December 2011
    ...of Victoria, Standard Operating Procedure No 4 of 2009--Production by Electronic Transfer of Documents, December 2009 ('SOP 4'). (126) (1882) 11 QBD 55, 63 (Brett (127) Craig Down, 'Crying Woolf? Reform of the Adversarial System in Australia' (1998) 7 Journal of Judicial Administration 213,......